🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this story on YouTube below, or listen on most podcast platforms. It was late in ’91, and the air around Point Pleasant had that heavy, electric charge it gets right before a storm breaks. I was hauling a load through the winding stretch of Route 2, the river mist…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this ghost story on YouTube below, or listen on most podcast platforms. The blacktop in West Virginia doesn’t just run through the mountains; it feels like it’s being swallowed by them. I was hauling a heavy load of industrial coils toward Columbus, and by the time I hit…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this ghost story on YouTube below: Growing up in the deep folds of rural Appalachia, you learn the language of the mountains early. My father was a master of the woods—a man who could read the ripple of a trout stream or the snap of a twig like…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this ghost story on YouTube below: Doug is a man who lives and breathes American history. A dedicated reenactor living in Virginia, Doug is known for his meticulous attention to detail, from the authentic weave of his wool uniforms down to the historically accurate grooming of his hair….
Listen to this story on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bDeKHh-XgC8 On Labor day weekend, 2023, we were demonstrating blacksmithing at Watoga State Park. It was a 2 day event so we planned to camp out at our site. That Saturday evening, everyone except the two of us, and one other person at the other end of the site, had left the…
Listen to this story on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/J9dCGVGRBI4 I hope this finds you both well. Back in the early 1990’s when my best friend Sally graduated from college she decided to take a road trip to get a little R&R. She asked me if I wanted to accompany her. I had a vacation from…
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